Kane began his voice acting career in 1977 when he was 14 years old. Some of his best-known roles include Jedi Master
Yoda and Admiral Yularen in
Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film and
TV series, The Chancellor in
9,
Magneto in
Wolverine and the X-Men and
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds,
Ultron in
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow and ''
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Mr. Herriman in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Lord Monkey Fist in Kim Possible, Professor Utonium and HIM in The Powerpuff Girls, Oxnard Montalvo in The Angry Beavers, and Darwin in The Wild Thornberrys''. Kane was also a prominent video game voice actor, appearing in numerous titles - from bit parts, to major roles such as
Gandalf,
Professor X and lead characters in many
Star Wars games like
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as Imperial Captain Ozzik Sturn, Lobot and Kento Marek (the father of
Sam Witwer's Galen Marek) thanks to ILM's motion capture technology. In
Call of Duty: World at War,
Black Ops,
Black Ops II,
Black Ops III and
Black Ops IV, he provides the voice of Takeo Masaki, a Japanese WWII soldier and WWI warrior in the Zombies game mode. In
Fortnite: Save the World, Kane voices the robot Lok. In the arena of non-animation voiceover work, Kane recorded commercials, film trailers and television promos. In addition, he has been the announcer for the
AFI Life Achievement Award show twice, as well as the
78th,
80th,
83rd,
84th, and
90th Academy Awards. He also played
Odin (the father of
Thor and
Loki) in the
video game adaptation of Thor as well as the Disneyland attraction:
Thor: Treasures of Asgard, taking over the role from
Anthony Hopkins from the film. On April 13, 2012, Kane took over for Joe Hursh as the voice of the
Walt Disney World Monorail System. In 2013, he took over as the announcer of
The Eric Andre Show, replacing
Gary Anthony Williams. Kane made his debut in the
Star Wars film saga as the voice of
Admiral Ackbar in 2017's
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, taking over the role from the late
Erik Bauersfeld. He had experience in voicing the character on several occasions for video games in the franchise prior to the film's release. He also voiced Plague Champion in
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II –
Chaos Rising and
Retribution. During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Kane was one of several voices for health and safety announcements at Walt Disney World. He also narrated the series premiere of
Star Wars: The Bad Batch in May 2021.
Retirement In November 2020, Kane suffered a
stroke which left him with significant weakness on the right side of his body and damage to his speaking, writing, and reading abilities. In September 2021, Kane's daughter Sam confirmed that, due to his stroke, he had decided to officially enter an early retirement from voice acting. She gives regular updates on
Facebook about his condition. ==Personal life==